PMQs: David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash over UK's economic recovery

During Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, David Cameron and
Ed Miliband come to blows over the speed and progress of Britain's economic
recovery.

12:43PM GMT 30 Jan 2013

David Cameron was accused of pushing up the national debt to pay for his Government's economic failure by Labour leader Ed Miliband.

In the first Prime Minister's Questions since figures showed the economy shrank in the last quarter of 2012, Mr Miliband said the Prime Minister was "borrowing more for failure".

But the Prime Minister said Labour would borrow more, were "doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past" and could not be trusted to run the economy.

The first official estimate from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed the economy shrank by 0.3 per cent between October and December, slamming the recovery into reverse after 0.9 per cent growth in the previous quarter.

Mr Miliband said growth since Chancellor George Osborne's autumn 2010 spending review had been 0.4 per cent rather than the forecast 5 per cent.